USS Indianapolis located in the Philippine Sea

**Down1** · 19th August 2017, 03:32 PM

Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface.

Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, led a search team, assisted by historians from the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) in Washington, D.C., to accomplish what past searches had failed to do – find Indianapolis, considered the last great naval tragedy of World War II.

https://news.usni.org/2017/08/19/uss...wreckage-found

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Horrible story what these sailors went through.
Many books on it.
Mission of the Shark was a TV movie about it.

**crimethink** · 19th August 2017, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by Down1

Mission of the Shark was a TV movie about it.

Nicholas Cage played the Captain last year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_In...Men_of_Courage

Worth a watch, for free.

They nailed McVay, even though CINCPACFLT kept information from him that could have prevented what happened, nor were proper measures taken to look for her when she didn't arrive. He was finally exonerated by Act of Congress (and Bill Clinton's signature, one of the few things he did right), though only decades after McVay blew his brains out from the guilt and wrongful torment.